The Paris Summer Olympics are coming up in about a year-and-a-half, and I figured it couldn’t hurt to begin a list now and continue to add to it.

You might also be interested in my “Best” lists about previous Olympic games:

A Beginning List For Learning About The 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics

A Beginning List For Learning About The 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics

The Best Resources On The 2016 Rio Olympics

The Best Sites For Learning About The Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games

The Best Sites For Learning About The London 2012 Olympics

The Best Sites To Learn About The Vancouver Winter Olympics

The Best Sites To Teach & Learn About The Olympics

Here’s what I have so far:

Here’s the official website for the Paris Olympics, and here are some education resources.

Check out the first post I wrote for The New York Times — focusing on the Olympics. It was written during the London games, but many of the ELL activities are still applicable.

The BBC’s Primary History site on the ancient Greek Olympics is very good.

50 stunning Olympic moments comes from The Guardian.

How much were the original Olympics like the modern Games? is from The BBC.

“Science Of The Summer Olympics” is a series of videos NBC has produced with the National Science Foundation.

INFOGRAPHIC: Olympic Physics is from NPR.

13 Olympic Moments That Have Changed History

The evolution of the Summer Olympic Games poster

What Are The Worst Olympic Sports? is from Five Thirty Eight.

How The Olympic Medal Tables Explain The World is from NPR.

YOU WON’T FIND A BETTER GROWTH MINDSET QUOTE THAN THIS ONE FROM A RUGBY STAR

Who dominates the Olympics? Depends on the sport. is from The Washington Post.

The Olympic Museum has lots of lesson plans.

The ISL Collective has lots of free ELL worksheets.

ESOL Courses has lots of  Olympic interactives.

Ready, Set, Go! – Excellent ESL Activities about the Olympics is from Busy Teacher.

The Olympic Games is a lesson from Lingua House.

The Dark History of the Olympic Torch Relay is from TIME.

Ranked: Athletes With the Most Olympic Medals

Ranked: the countries with the highest number of all-time gold medals in Summer Olympic sports

Here Are the Olympic Moments We Won’t Forget is from The NY Times.

How Fast Is That Going? is a NY Times interactive.

Extreme heat threatens future Summer Olympics is from Axios.